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" As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 66
1854
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American State Papers Bearing on Sunday Legislation

William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - 1911 - 808 pages
...measures. Treaties must be regarded in all courts. Framing of the treaty. ARTICLE 11. As the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,* as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmans...
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The American Spirit

Oscar Solomon Straus - 1913 - 426 pages
...The declaration referred to is in Article IX of the treaty and reads as follows: As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity of Mussulmans,...
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"Is this a Christian Country?": Address

Moses Perez Jacobson - 1913 - 40 pages
...question as to the Christian character of our country. The entire sentence reads : "As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Mussulmer ;...
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Liberty, Volumes 11-15

1916 - 804 pages
...Sunday law for either the District of Columbia or any other part of the American domain. The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded upon the Christian religion.— Treaty with Tripoli, 1797. An Inverted Pyramid BY LA SMITH THE various...
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The Principles of American Diplomacy

John Bassett Moore - 1918 - 508 pages
...1796, during the administration of Washington, we find this significant declaration: "As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity of Mussulmen,...
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Constitutional Free Speech Defined and Defended in an Unfinished Argument in ...

Theodore Schroeder - 1919 - 460 pages
...communicated to the Senate May 26, 1797.15 "Article 2 [of this Treaty] : As the government of tJif United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religions, or tranquillity of Mussnl14...
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Freedom, Civil and Religious: The American Conception of Liberty for Press ...

Religious Liberty Association (Washington, D.C.) - 1920 - 144 pages
...see in this a forerunner of the statement made in the treaty with Tripoli in 1797 : " The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." — "American State Papers," Class I, Foreign Relations, Vol. II, p. 18. That was no slur on the Christian...
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Under Four Administrations: From Cleveland to Taft

Oscar Solomon Straus - 1922 - 530 pages
...between the United States and Tripoli, negotiated by Joel Barlow in 1796. It read: As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility of Musselman;...
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The Essential American Tradition: An Anthology of Striking and Significant ...

Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 360 pages
...themselves, but, according to their stations, to prevent it in others. Treaty with Tripoli. The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded upon the Christian religion. Answer to address presented by the Baptists of Virginia. If I could have...
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Sunday Observance: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Judiciary...on H.R ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1926 - 310 pages
...would like to read. They are taken from the American Sentinel of Religious Liberty. As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion, it is not the legitimate province of the legislature to determine what religion is true or what false....
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